Page 11: Historical Events In 1968

Jun 04   On this day in history dorothy Gish, [de Guiche], actress (Home Sweet Home), dies at 70   

Jun 05   Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, who was immediately arrested. Kennedy had just claimed victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. 68 in the year 1968.   

Jun 05   Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day in the year 1968.   

Jun 05   In the year 1968 uS Senator Robert Kennedy shot and killed in Los Angeles   

Jun 06   On this day in history franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies   

Jun 06   Senator Robert F. Kennedy succumbs to being shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan the day before in Los Angeles in the year 1968.   

Jun 07   On this day in history dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies of cancer at at 60   

Jun 07   On this day in history sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination   

Jun 08   Gary Puckett &The Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" on this day in history.   

Jun 08   James Earl Ray, suspected of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr., is captured at the London Airport on this day in history.   

Jun 08   New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted on this day in history.   

Jun 08   On this day in history rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"   

Jun 10   Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

Jun 12   Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76 in the year 1968.   

Jun 14   Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish opera composer (Aniara), dies at 51 on this day in history.   

Jun 15   On this day in history john Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral   

Jun 15   On this day in history samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88   

Jun 18   In the year 1968 supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale &rental of housing   

Jun 19   50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign on this day in history.   

Jun 20   In the year 1968 jim Hines becomes first person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds   

Jun 21   Ruth St Denis, ballerina (Dances of the 5 Senses), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

Jun 21   Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns in the year 1968.   

Jun 24   On this day in history canadian Sandra Post becomes first non-US &1st rookie LPGA winner   

Jun 24   Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion on this day in history.   

Jun 24   On this day in history joe Frazier TKOs Manda Ramos for world heavyweight boxing title   

Jun 24   On this day in history resurrection City closed   

Jun 25   Tony Hancock, actor/writer (Call Me Genius, Rebel), dies at 43 on this day in history.   

Jun 26   On this day in history iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US   

Jun 27   In the year 1968 ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague   

Jun 27   Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af), dies on this day in history.   

Jun 28   Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers in the year 1968.   

Jun 29   Kitty Kelly, actress (Ladies of Jury, Behind Office Doors), dies at 66 in the year 1968.   

Jun 30   On this day in history gaullists win victory in the French National Assembly elections   

Jun 30   John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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Jan 02   In the year 1968 birth of cuba Gooding Jr, actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)   

Jan 02   Scott Mitchell, NFL quarterback (Detroit Lions) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of evan Parke, Jamaican actor   

Jan 03   In the year 1968 birth of kent Carlsson, Sweden, tennis star   

Jan 03   Kerry Huffman, Peterborough, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Ottawa) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Shannon Sturges, actress (Savannah) was born in the year 1968.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of thomas Rayam, CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)   

Jan 02   Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian writer, dies on this day in history.   

Jan 04   In the year 1968 joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83   

Jan 05   In the year 1968 jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera), dies at 79   

Jan 06   In the year 1968 kurt Baschwitz, Germ/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Heksen), dies at 81   

Jan 07   Prof James Smith, South African ichthyologist (b. 1897) died on this day in history.   

Jan 09   On this day in history death of kokichi Tsuburaya, Japanese marathoner (Oly-bronze-1964), commits suicide   

Jan 10   In the year 1968 basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73   

Jan 11   In the year 1968 death of isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)